USS Basilan
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USS Basilan (AG-68) was a Basilan-class miscellaneous auxiliary acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. The ship was designed as a combined barracks-stores-water distillation ship, but was later converted to an electronics repair ship. She spent her Navy career in the Pacific Ocean theatre of operations.
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USS Basilan (AG-68) underway in San Francisco Bay, 27 March 1945, after overhaul. | |
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Ordered | as Internal Combustion Engine Repair Ship (ARG-12) |
Builder | Delta Shipbuilding Corporation, New Orleans, Louisiana |
Laid down | 5 February 1944, as SS Jacques Phillipe Villere |
Launched | 21 March 1944 |
Acquired | by the Navy, 21 April 1944 |
Commissioned | 10 October 1944 as USS Basilan (AG-68) |
Decommissioned | 22 April 1946, at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii |
Reclassified | AG-68, date unknown |
Refit | Waterman Steamship Company, Mobile, Alabama |
Stricken | 28 May 1947 |
Fate | sold, 12 June 1972, for scrapping |
Notes | type (EC-2-S-C1) hull, MCE hull 2460 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Basilan-class miscellaneous auxiliary |
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Length | 442' |
Beam | 57' |
Draft | 23' |
Propulsion | reciprocating steam engine, single shaft, 1,950hp |
Speed | 13 knots |
Complement | 181 officers and enlisted |
Armament | one single 5 in (130 mm) dual purpose gun mount; four 40 mm AA gun mounts; twelve single 20 mm AA gun mounts |
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